Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1887-12-29
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 60. 1887.
TE1G miHT - DANAEE.

nual report to congress, devotes sew
eral pages to the Carson Mint, and
recommends its Closing in the fol-
lowing unmistakable language:
alt becomes my duty to recon-
mend for the good of the Mint
service, that the Mint at Carson he
finally closed. that its machinery
and other equipments be distrib
uted among the several MINIS and
assay offices, and that the building
be applied to some other public pur-
pose" 4.
This simply means that the Mint
is to be closed that the i'ubiic
Building appropriation may revert
to the Treasury, and the Mint be
utilized as Federal Court House
and Postoffiee. Director Kimball
seems to labor under the Impression
that "a Mint should be run as
grocery store for making
and not for the convenience of bull
lion producers. There is no more
reason for dismantling the Carson
Mint because it has run behind than
there is for abolfshirg the Empi e
Postotiice because it does not make
money for the Government. Kim
ball treats the Mint from the mar
row standpoint of a man who might
be running it as business and was
anxious to close it down if it ran be-
hind a year. If he will review the
history of tho Mint hs will find that
in past years it has coined gold and
silver at a much less per cent. OF
loss than any Mint in the United
States, and the work done at the
Carson Mint was unequalled by any
Mint in the United States. In all
these years the work OF the
Government has been carried on
without cent of loss from defalca-
tions or blundering work. The
Mint has a clean record. In his
studied homily on the Mint, KIM
bali states but one good reason for
closing it,, and it is couched
in the following significant lar
guage:
"The producer OF bullion, for
whose supposed benefit the insti,u.
ton was estah, shed, has, as a rule,
found il for his own interest to de-
post his bullion at San Francisco
rather than at home"
Here is the main excuse for clos
ing the Mint, and the excuse is
based on what everybody knows is
true. Over year ago the APPEAL
called the attention of the leading
mining companies to the fact that
It's refusal to patronize the Mint
would in the end result in the clos
ing Of the Institution, and this step
would result in an injury to
the whole silver industry. Just
at the present time the mine man.
ayers are interested in creating
stock boom. Let it go abroad that
the Mint at Carson, Nevada, is
closed down for want of silver to
work. and at once the cry echoes
through the world that the bottom
has dropped out of the Comstock.
This will materially depre ;iate the
price of shares held in various parts
of the world, and no buyers of
Comstock stock can ever be found
outside of California and Nevada.
How 90 the mining managers
like such an outlook? There must
be fight made for the Mint, which
must be begun by the depositing
there OF sufficient bullion to run it
a year. This deposit can be made
easily during the coming month il
the short sighted bullion producers
OF the Comstock will only look to
our interests and put their should
ers TO the wheel. There is enough
ore in sight on the ledge today to
run the mills for twenty years and
keep the Mint running also. Once
let the Mint close down and not a
single share OF Comstock securities
can ever be sold again East OF the !